It takes practice, though, "see the forest through the trees." A _good_ BA knows how to do this, how to keep the questions at the right level at the right time, how to use the procedural detail to discover the real business rules, and so on. AND, they need to be teachable when they see experts like you giving awesome advice like this.

"Go out to the business and gather their requirements!" How many times do we hear this said? When I hear this being it immediately fills me with dread; images of men in suits wandering through dark forests without maps, looking for mushrooms...needles in haystacks and the like (you get the id...